Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...midst of Neuberger's speech, Mrs. George Malone, peppery wife of the Republican Senator from Nevada, rose from her chair, uttered a distinct boo, and flounced from the banquet hall. Afterward, she was scolded in the lobby by Perle Mesta, elder daughter of the Democratic regiment. Next day both ladies denied everything (she was only going to the ladies' room, explained Katie Malone), and Dick Neuberger, the man who wanted to be dignified, was the subject of caterwauling headlines across the nation...
...Philadelphia for the pleasant chore of picking up $70,000 contributed to his library fund (TIME, June 21), Harry Truman told a banquet audience why he believes that presidential papers belong to the public. Said Librarian Truman: "Through the documents . . . you can find out, and the scholars of the future can find out, what the man in the White House at the time was thinking about when he did those things. It is very easy to be a Monday-morning quarterback and tell a man what he should have done...
Member of the Wedding. In Boston, seeking annulment of her marriage to William Jordan, Mrs. Margaret H. Jordan testified that she dozed off during their wedding banquet, awoke to find that bridegroom and guests had departed, did not see Jordan again until five years later...
Tomorrow, following a banquet given by King Gustav VI for all Noble winners, Enders will deliver before the Swedish Royal Academy of Science the Noble Lecture--written by the three men-and required annually of all winners in the field of science. He will tell how three men in a tiny laboratory at the Children's Hospital followed logical scientific methods to discover the long-sought method of cultivating polio virus in a test-tube. Although their methods were only a slight modification of a research technique first introduced in 1907, they produced a discovery sufficiently significant to inspire...
When Halpern launched T.N.T., only seven theaters were set up for closed-circuit TV; now there are more than 100. With them, plus a network of hotels and their built-in banquet facilities, Halpern thinks T.N.T. has just started to explode...